Joanne Leonard

Joanne Leonard is an American photographer, photo collage artist, and feminist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her work has been included in major art history textbooks and has been shown internationally in galleries and museums.[1][2]

Early life

Joanne Leonard was born in Los Angeles in 1940 to P. Alfred Leonard, originally of Mannheim, Germany, and Marjorie Rosenfeld Leonard. She has a twin sister, Eleanor (Rubin), who is also an artist, and a younger sister, Barbara (Handelman). She received a B.A. in Social Science from the University of California in 1962.[3][1] As infants, she and her twin sister were cast as a baby in The Lady Is Willing starring Marlene Dietrich.[4]

Career

Leonard is known for her photographs and photo collages depicting private moments and personal struggles from women's lives once considered either taboo or unimportant.[1] Her work struck a chord with the art world in the later part of the 20th century, and she was one of the few female artists to be featured in the 3rd edition of H.W. Janson’s History of Art.[5] Her photograph, Julia and the Window of Vulnerability was chosen to illustrate the opening of the chapter, "The Modern World" in the 1991 edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages.[6]

She was an official photographer for the 1972 Winter Olympics.[7]

She taught art and interdisciplinary courses at the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and now holds the title of Diane M. Kirkpatrick and Griselda Pollock Distinguished University Professor Emerita.[1] She has one daughter, Julia.[8]

Collections

Leonard's work is held by major collections, including the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[9] The Metropolitan Museum of Art,[10] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[11] the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts,[12] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.,[13] and the International Center of Photography in New York City.[14] The Museum of Modern Art in New York holds 62 of her photographs, all of which are digitized and available on their website.[15]

Bibliography
  • Being in pictures : an intimate photo memoir. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-47211-402-3.

Further reading

"Being in Pictures : Book Review". lensculture.

"Artist Joanne Leonard on Coronavirus Curves and the Art of Everyday Life". University of Michigan Museum of Art.

References
  1. "Joanne Leonard". Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  2. "Joanne Leonard". Stamps School of Art & Design. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  3. Leonard, Joanne (2008). Being in Pictures. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. p. 4. ISBN 9780472114023.
  4. Leonard, Joanne (2008). Being in Pictures. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. p. 8. ISBN 9780472114023.
  5. Janson, Horst Woldemar (1986). History of Art (3rd ed.). New York: H.N. Abrams. pp. 781–782. ISBN 013389388X.
  6. Gardner, Helen (1991). Gardner's Art Through the Ages (9th ed.). San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p. 858. ISBN 0155037692.
  7. O'Neill, Claire (May 17, 2009). "Joanne Leonard's 'Being in Pictures'". The Picture Show: Photo Stories from NPR. NPR. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  8. "Being in Pictures An Intimate Photo Memoir". Michigan Publishing : University of Michigan Press. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  9. "Exchange|Search: artist:"Joanne Leonard"". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  10. "Joanne Leonard : Romanticism Is Ultimately Fatal". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
  11. "Joanne Leonard". LACMA. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  12. "Another Morning". Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  13. "Joanne Leonard". SFMOMA. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  14. "Being in Pictures". International Center of Photography. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  15. "Joanne Leonard". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
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